How many here would say this launch was impressive if it was NVIDIA launching this part? Anyone?

Id say it was impressive if nvidia launched a part right now that was 50% faster than their last gen.

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Originally Posted by Rollo

Supposedly they had given up the "cheaper, smaller, about as good strategy" here and produced a big monolithic GPU that people wouldn't have to "settle for" according to their press deck. That will be the case exactly the number of days until kepler launches, then it's back to "about as good and cheaper" and from the looks of things this will be more of a 2900XT vs 8800GTX situation. NVIDIA only has to hit 50% faster to be 25-30% faster than this part.

The 7970 isn't a big monolithic GPU at all. It is the most efficient high end GPU out now by a LARGE margin. So, for Nvidia to be successful, it only has to be 25% faster than a 7970. Yet, the 7970 that is 25% faster than a 580 isn't successful to you? LOL So where is kepler, no where in sight is where.